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Programmatically enable browser plugin

Anyone know how to programmatically enable a browser plugin? Our VPN solution requires the Java plugin to be active and upon first launch it's disabled. Due to general Safari behavior, enabling the plugin and restarting Safari can become a less than ...  View more

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Duplicate Self Service Web Clip

Hi guys, Ran into a weird issue when I unenrolled an iPhone 4S from MDM, the self service web clip did not get completely deleted. When I went to reenroll the device I ended up with two web clip icons. Any ideas as to why this would happen and how to...  View more

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Uninstall Self Service

Hi there,A student has installed Self Service on her personal MacBook and we want to remove it from that computer. How can Self Service be completely uninstalled from the computer? When I mean completely I mean software, preferences and casperadmin a...  View more

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Sophos duplicates Mac OS 10.8.1

Previously duplicate machines in the Sophis Enterprise Console used to be fixed in the /etc/smb.conf by specifying the workgroup. Unfortunately in Mac OS 10.8+ there is no /etc/smb.conf At the mo there is no fix and i had to spread to 3 different peo...  View more

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Login Items

When I set a Login Item in the Items area within a Configuration Profile and save it it disappears when I go back into the setting. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior? Running JSS 8.6.  View more

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JSS Webapp Login logs?

All, I was searching the logs, but could not find any logging info for logins to the JSS thru the Webapp Our JSS accounts are tied to LDAP accounts, and suddenly an admin's (that is known to have higher JSS access) domain account kept locking out, an...  View more

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.DS_Store file suppression configuration profile

Hey there jamfnation, I've always used MCX to suppress the creation of .DS_Store files on network shares in the past, and I've converted the MCX I used to use to a custom setting in a configuration profile for 10.8, but it does not appear to work- cl...  View more

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iPad Naming Convention in Schools

I'm curious to see how other K12 techs name their iPads. Do you put something in the name to identify its location/school? How do you differentiate between staff and student iPads? Do you create Smart Groups in the JSS based on the iPad names? I know...  View more

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Need to delete file using casper

I ma trying to delete a directory from /Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser -Is there a way to accomplish this with jss. Do I need a script? If yet, does anyone have example?  View more

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Email notification of enrollment

Does anyone have a method for generating an email notification whenever a new computer (or even better, device) is enrolled? I've poked around but there doesn't seem to be an easy method and I'm just wondering if I'm overlooking something before I ma...  View more

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Updating CS6

How are people managing CS6 updates? Has anyone run into any issues to watch out for?  View more

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iPad (ios) data wipe?

We have 2 iPad carts (30 in each). I was wondering if there is a way we could remotely wipe the ipads each day? Our fear is that a student could leave open session of email, facebook, etc...without logging out. the next day a different student will h...  View more

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NetSUS Reposado Disk Size

Hi all, I'm trying the NetSUS appliance to setup an update server. The appliance comes w/ a vmdk that is 100GB, which fills up before the sync completes. I have modified the preferences.plist file to only fetch lion updates to reduce the download siz...  View more

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Students can bypass software restriction

Hoping somebody might have some ideas. A student recently showed us that he was able to access Terminal even though we have it blocked. He did this by copying the application to the his home folder and simply renaming it. I spoke with JAMF and they s...  View more

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Viper Anti Virus For Mac.

Hello All, Need advice. Our organization is planing to go with the Viper Anti Virus Solution for Mac's we have. Before we go with it wanted to know if some one is already using this solution.How is this solution? Regards,SonuW  View more

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10.8.1 Location Services Locking AD Account

Hi All, Im playing with location services in 10.8.1 so I can force it on from the command line and set an app to be added to the approved list. What I have noticed is that when turning on or off location Services in the pref pane :- The LaunchD trick...  View more

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Deletion of computer from group via API

Hi guys I've looked through the documentation but I can't find how to do this. I can create groups and add computers to them and delete groups, but I can't for the life of me find how to remove a computer from a group. Does anyone know what the XML s...  View more

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Ticking Auto Proxy Discovery in 10.6.X

Hi,This will tick the auto proxy discovery tickbox in 10.6.X machines. #!/bin/bash # Mac OS X 10.6.X# Date: 09/2012# Author: Isaac Bayssari # This will tick the auto proxy discovery tick box for 10.6.X machines. echo "list Setup:/Network/Service/[^/]...  View more

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Unable to NetBoot more than 5 systems

Hi All, In my environment, I am currently unable to NetBoot more than 5 systems. I have the image being served of AFP on a system with 8GB of RAM. It's the same system that's running the netboot, but I'm unable to split them out due to our environmen...  View more

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Best practice for updating to the latest IOS

being new to JAMF I’ve not gone through a major IOS update yet, but I’m trying to prepare for this one coming in the near future. When doing a major IOS update like going from 4 to 5 after the install and restore form the created backup will the iDev...  View more

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MCXConfig Profiles not applying on 10.8 clients

Hi All, I'm trying to get config profiles with settins frequency using "https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile" to work on 10.8 clients, but am having no luck. The below is an example of a config profile I have created using the above tool.. but e...  View more

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loginwindow crashes

I recently noticed that when using Casper Imaging 8.6, a 10.7 thin configuration, and binding the Mac to AD via a post image script that within Console > System Diagnostic are crash reports for the loginwindow. (We are unboxing the Mac, power on with...  View more

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Apple Configurator, Casper and iPads

I'm using 10.8.1 with Apple Configurator 1.1.2 and Casper 8.6. I'm doing a test group of 8 I hope I can get some answers before I have to do 400 of these. When I go to install a profile it works fine (most of the time) the first time. When I replug i...  View more

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10.7 Image on New MacBook Pro?

I received a new MacBookPro9,1 which came with Mountain Lion. I was unsuccessful putting our enterprise 10.6 or 10.7 version of OS X on it, and have made repeated attempts to put a fresh copy of Lion on it. I continue to get the "restricted" sign and...  View more

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JamfHelper Stucks

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/screenshot20120910at240.png/ I have a problem (again) When I try to restore my image to a 15 inch retina MBPro the "Creating jamHelper" stucks at this point (See link) The 13" MBPro runs good. The image is alr...  View more

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